An interesting study of omental application for the treatment of degenerative neurological diseases and injuries, Goldsmith and colleagues present alternative uses for the rich blood supply found in the omentum. Treatment of spinal cord injuries, arachnoiditis, Moyamoya disease, cerebral ischemia, and Alzheimer disease are discussed.

The Omentum explores and assesses the comparatively new approach of using omental attachment in the treatment of a variety of neurologic diseases. Topics discussed include historical images and ideas connected with the greater omentum; angiogenesis and the greater omentum; implications for central nervous system injury of vasoactive chemicals in th...

Provides the latest ideas and clinical findings that have taken the possibility of surgical transposition of the omentum from animal experimentation to clinical application. Presents the potential benefits this surgical technique could bring to a variety of clinical conditions and the basic understanding involved. For neurosurgeons and neurologists...

Any doctor would have advised the young boy to take off the rest of the season. Author Mark Hyman sent his son out to pitch the next game. After all, it was play-off time. Stories like these are not uncommon.

This is the first comprehensive book to cover all aspects of word sense disambiguation. It covers major algorithms, techniques, performance measures, results, philosophical issues and applications. The text synthesizes past and current research across the field, and helps developers grasp which techniques will best apply to their particular applica...

This book presents recent advances (from 2008 to 2012) concerning use of the Naïve Bayes model in unsupervised word sense disambiguation (WSD). While WSD, in general, has a number of important applications in various fields of artificial intelligence (information retrieval, text processing, machine translation, message understanding, man-machine co...

The Sushruta Samhita (सुश्रुतसंहिता) is a Sanskrit text on surgery, attributed to Sushruta, a physician who possibly resided in Varanasi around 6th century BCE. The text (based on analysis of ancient Indian manuscripts)[clarification needed], was likely composed around 3rd or 4th century BCE.

Ovarian diseaseOvarian diseases can be classified as endocrine disorders or as a disorders of the reproductive system. If the egg fails to release from the follicle in the ovary an ovarian cyst may form.